Is That a Fact?: A Field Guide for Evaluating and Statistical and Scientific Information - Brossura

Battersby, Mark

 
9781551115870: Is That a Fact?: A Field Guide for Evaluating and Statistical and Scientific Information
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ISBN 10: 1551115875 ISBN 13: 9781551115870
Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2010

Sinossi

We are inundated by scientific and statistical information, but what should we believe? How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a scientist informs us that recent studies support global warming, what should we conclude? How can we acquire reliable statistical information? Once we have it, how do we evaluate it? Despite the importance of these questions to our lives, many of us have only a vague idea of how to answer them.In this admirably clear and engaging book, Mark Battersby provides a practical guide to thinking critically about scientific and statistical information. The goal of the book is not only to explain how to identify misleading statistical information, but also to give readers the understanding necessary to evaluate and use statistical and statistically based scientific information in their own decision making.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mark Battersby is Professor of Philosophy at Capilano University.

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We are inundated by scientific and statistical information, but what should we believe? How much should we trust the polls on the latest electoral campaign? When a physician tells us that a diagnosis of cancer is 90% certain or a scientist informs us that recent studies support global warming, what should we conclude? How can we acquire reliable statistical information? Once we have it, how do we evaluate it? Despite the importance of these questions to our lives, many of us have only a vague idea of how to answer them.In this admirably clear and engaging book, Mark Battersby provides a practical guide to thinking critically about scientific and statistical information. The goal of the book is not only to explain how to identify misleading statistical information, but also to give readers the understanding necessary to evaluate and use statistical and statistically based scientific information in their own decision making.

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Editore
Broadview Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1551115875
ISBN 13 
9781551115870
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
232
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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